Speaker Series: Rashmee Singh

Dr. Rashmee Singh (she/her) was a 2025-26 Visiting Scholar at the American Bar Foundation. She is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo. Her research interests include feminist legal theory, feminist criminology, specialized courts, gender-based violence, and the governance of sex work. Her primary research project is a five-year comparative study examining the impact of criminal legal reforms on adult sex workers in the wake of anti-trafficking and anti-prostitution panics in the United States and Canada. The project, which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) examines specialized prostitution and human trafficking courts in multiple American cities and anti-trafficking movements in Southern Ontario. To register, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.